A doormat, more frequently spelled door-mat is a flat, usually rectangular object placed

immediately outside or inside the entrance to a house or other building, to allow people to
easily scrub or wipe the soles of their shoes before entering. Doormats are usually made from
tough, long-lasting material such as coir, palmyra (palm) fibres and stalks, nylon, rubber,
cloth, or aluminium and other metals. Doormats may also be known as welcome mats, as
their location at an entrance constitutes a "welcome" to visitors, and may therefore also bear
some word, message or sign of greeting.
This in turn has given rise to a subculture of cartoons featuring characters returning home to
find (to the reader) a humorous message on the doormat. The lowly purpose for which
doormats exist has also led to informal use of the term as a reference to people who behave
timidly or passively when exploited by others
By this document our different understandings and concept of the major problems faced in
day to day life with the door mats will be clear and problems faced with its different
prospective and rectification is there.
There is a series of questions compiled from different peoples and their problems are noted.
Weightage is given and accordingly questions are framed.
Questions are asked from different peoples with different cultures and way of living so as to
get all the aspects and importance of a door mat and thereby creating a generality amongst
them.
This research has taken about 1-3 months for completion and framing of questions. With the
help of different peoples around ,some good research has been done thereby making the
project a successful one .
















This study was supported by Mrs. Apla ( Assistant Prof. National Institute of Fashion
Technology, Kangra )
. Additional support was provided by Mr. Deepak Joshi ( Asst. Prof. NIFT , Kangra ) .

I would like to thank Arti Jaiswal ( Textile Designer ) from WeaveTex , New Delhi for her
unmatchable support and a good source of information to
this study.

I would like to thank Mrs. Urmila Devi ( faculty at R.S. Kevi , New Delhi ) for her assistance
in analysing my study and detailing about doormats , different problems faced in daily life
giving an idea with an abstract to solve them .

I would also like to thank my family and friends for their encouragement while I worked
towards my documentation and its different prospective.

Finally, I would like to especially thank my sample members, Mrs Shweta Devan ( house
wife ) ,
Dr. Anurag Kashyap, Mrs. Vandita Arora (house wife ) for assisting in all aspects and
patiently reviewing and answering the questions of my project. I would like to offer special
thanks to my sister (advisor), Sricha Verma, for her help and support over the this project.